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The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Plague by Albert Camus: “Can One Be a Saint Without God?”
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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London Markets In The 1960s an 1970s
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Through the Looking Glass with Robert Cumming – Pictures
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9 Iconic Minimalist Works by Women Artists
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British Grand Strategy & the European Balance of Power: 1815-1914
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Shaka Zulu: The Life of Africa’s Legendary Warrior King
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Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
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How the CCP is Closing China
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What Is Original Sin for St Augustine?
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Open Culture
Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” &...
In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as...
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
TheCollector
What Were the Casta Paintings of 18th Century Mexico?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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Folk Champion: Who Was Pete Seeger?
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The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion?
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What Can Psychoanalysis Tell Us About Hamlet?
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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History Today Feed
The Vienna Secession is Founded
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
9 months ago
The Vienna Secession is Founded
JamesHoare
Wed, 04/03/2024 - 10:30
TheCollector
Verification Vs. Falsification: The Birth of the Philosophy of Science
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Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
9 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
a year ago
Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
History Today Feed
In Defence of Boring Books
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
9 months ago
In Defence of Boring Books
JamesHoare
Thu, 04/04/2024 - 00:00
Classical Wisdom
Herodotus Versus Thucydides?
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
a year ago
Which Historian Wins?... and Why?
TheCollector
Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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TheCollector
6 Must-See English Castles
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Grimgrains, published a tofu from soy flour recipe, and reduced...
TheCollector
Limpieza de Sangre: Blood Purity in Spain and Mexico
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TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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8 months ago
African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911.
state and society in south-central Africa
9 months ago
state and society in south-central Africa
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
a year ago
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
Patterns in Humanity
Global crime
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
a month ago
How do crime rates vary around the world? And how reliable is the data?
Wrong Side of...
Educated rage
American polarisation: part 2
2 months ago
American polarisation: part 2
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra: The Hero’s Second Labor
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TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
11 months ago
From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods)
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How Did the Crusades Affect Christianity?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Walter Benjamin’s Theses: Is Progress Inevitable?
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Ways the CIA Tried & Failed to Kill Fidel Castro
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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Trying to Understand...
The Wrong Stuff
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
11 months ago
Don't even think about rebuilding western militaries.
TheCollector
A History of the Whig Party: Who Were the Whigs?
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Faith Ringgold, Storytelling Quilt Artist, Dies at 93
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Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels
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Ancient Egypt Under the Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Brief Overview
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6 Things You Should Know About Pop Art
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
10 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
TheCollector
What Is the Easiest Language to Learn?
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Was Angkor Ever Lost? The Myth of French “Discovery”
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Who Was Josiah Wedgwood? Potter, Innovator, Entrepreneurial Genius
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Trying to Understand...
The Threat of Back to Normal
Global power has always been distributed.
a year ago
Global power has always been distributed.
Flashbak
Arthur Rackham’s Fantastic Illustrations for The Tempest, 1926
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes:...
a month ago
Full fathom five thy father lies Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, illustrated by Arthur Rackham 1926 Arthur...
TheCollector
What Is Agnes Pelton Best Known For?
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Ben Franklin in Politics: The Founding Father Who Was Never President
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an...
11 months ago
Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began...
3 months ago
Melissa Shook (1932-2020) was living on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1970s when she began a project to record her daily existence. Much like Peggy Nolan’s pictures of her family home, life was a place of free expression. “My earliest memories are of being photographed...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Flashbak
Big Hair & True Love in 1980s Kentucky
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby...
2 months ago
For over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Bram photographed people at the Kentucky Derby Festival in Louisville, an annual two-week event preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby horse race. It was all about the gigantic hair. You can see his...
TheCollector
The History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (& Its Collection)
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The Federalist Papers: History & Summary
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Oskar Schindler: The Business Tycoon Who Became a Hero
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Tunisian Bardo Museum Reopened Recently
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Story of Thebes
a year ago
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The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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How Did the Kingdom of Aksum Give Birth to Ethiopian Christianity?
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Dr Alun Withey
The ‘Celebrated Inventions’ of Alexander Ross.
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners,...
over a year ago
One thing that has continually fascinated me throughout all of my research on medical practitioners, barbers and retailers in the long eighteenth century, is the extent of what historians call ‘occupational diversity’. Rather than having one occupation, people might have...
TheCollector
Martin Luther: A Biography of the Reformer Who Sparked the Reformation
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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The Angolan Civil War: 26 Years of Fighting
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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The Forgotten Tomb of Henry VIII: Why Was He Buried Somewhere Else?
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Hundred Rabbits
the rock of polynesia
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's...
over a year ago
Niue, pronounced 'New-ay', a rock in the Pacific, one of the largest coral islands on earth. It's the first country to offer free, state-funded, wireless internet to all its residents and has a goal of being completely solar powered— uuuh... wow?
We'd also heard that the school...
TheCollector
When Did World War II Start and End?
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Classical Wisdom
Essential Classics
Memorial Sales Ends
7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
TheCollector
How Did Near Eastern Cultures Influence Greek Art?
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Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work?
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History Today Feed
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
a year ago
How the British Council Made a Soft Power Superpower
j.hoare
Mon, 12/11/2023 - 11:26
TheCollector
Top 10 Depictions of the Annunciation in Art
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Origins of Stoicism
5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
9 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
2 months ago
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/23/2024 - 09:34
Trying to Understand...
Getting Used To Being Weak.
It's worse than you probably imagine.
a year ago
It's worse than you probably imagine.
History Today Feed
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
11 months ago
Bad Omens: When the Astrologers Got it Wrong
JamesHoare
Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:44
TheCollector
Who Are the Young British Artists? An Overview of the Movement
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4 Key Non-Aligned States During the Cold War
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8 months ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
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Parmigianino Altarpiece Back On View After 10-Year Conservation
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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6 months ago
History Today Feed
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
3 weeks ago
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
JamesHoare
Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:28
TheCollector
What Language Did the Ancient Romans Speak?
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TheCollector
The 4 Most Controversial Historical Events from the Past 200 Years
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TheCollector
Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Separate History from Myth?
And does it need to be true to be important?
a year ago
And does it need to be true to be important?
TheCollector
Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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6 months ago
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Beer Hall Putsch: What Was Hitler’s Failed Attempt to Seize Power?
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11 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
TheCollector
How Did Sappho’s Love Life Influence Her Poetry?
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New Alphonse Mucha Museum to Open in Prague
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Anarchism Explained: Why Should the State be Abolished?
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a year ago
TheCollector
Fake News & the Information Age: Challenges in Modern Elections
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3 months ago
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
TheCollector
Silvio Berlusconi’s Worthless Art Collection
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions
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10 months ago
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